Alexander Weygers: the engineer & sculptor who patented the Flying Saucer

[Weaver]

Interesting Youtube video about Alexander Weygers, a polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, Aerospace engineer and author. He designed a 'flying saucer' in the 1920s and promoted it widely to the US armed forces and aerospace industry, eventually receiving a patent for it in 1944. The timing seems significant, since the modern wave of UFO sightings began a few years later, and Weygers was convinced that his design had been stolen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=614&v=xCr2mqR3VN4

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Weygers

Thanks to Paul Myles (@HL10PM) for posting this on Twitter.

[kerick]

The wiki article paints him as a man ahead of his time. Thanks